Renault Nissan Automotive India Private Limited

Renault Nissan Automotive India Private Limited Description

Renault Nissan Automotive India Private Limited was established in the year 2007 and has its headquarters in Kancheepuram. It is the Indian subsidiary of Renault Nissan. It manufactures cars such as Micra, Micra Active, Sunny, Evalia, Teana, Terrano, and Datsun GO. They have their manufacturing plant in Oragadam near Chennai. The plant has a capacity of 400,000 vehicles per annum. The capacity is divided equally between Renault India Private Limited and Nissan Motor India Private Limited. Renault is constructing a small car powered by an 800cc engine, to compete with Maruti Suzuki's Alto, Hyundai India's Eon and Chevrolet's Spark, in the segment, that makes up for about 40-45% of India's car market. The company has achieved production target of 5,00,000 lakhs vehicle in the month of October 2013 in the short span of 40 months after start of production. It is one of the most profitable company which adopts Japanese manufacturing policy of GENBA KANRI. The company works on the style of maximum productivity with minimum resources. But, in due course this manufacturing strategy sometimes frustrates its employees. Renault Nissan operates the official Technical and business center of the company that handle back office, off-shore activities, Technical and Development center, shared services for Renault Nissan Entities. The company is located at Mahindra city Chengalpattu, Chennai. The present models that are being manufactured are Rnault car, Koleos, Pulse, Duster, Scala, Lodgy, Kwid and Captur. The company also manufactures Nissan X- Trail, Teana and 370Z. As of 2015, Renault India has 224 outlets in India and Nissan Motor India has 201 dealerships across 148 cities in India.

Workers at a Nissan assembly plant in Mississippi have voted against forming a union, adding to decades of futility by United Auto Workers organizers at foreign-owned auto plants in the American South.

Lespiaucq’s replacement in India is likely to be announced within a next couple of months. Lespiaucq’s India stint began on May 1, 2014, when he took over as managing director, Volkswagen Group Sales India.

In an email to the top brass at the Indian unit of Nissan Motor, Peyman Kargar said: “I am writing to inform you that I will be acting as interim President of Nissan India Operations, in addition to my responsibilities as Chairman of the Africa, Middle East and India region. I will be overseeing India operations, including chairing the regular meetings of MC India and the functional leaders in India will report to me,” he said.

The alliance is in the process of hiring a core team of at least 300 technology experts, with expertise in software and cloud engineering, data analytics, machine learning and systems architecture, for our newly created connected vehicle and mobility services group

Sergey Skvortsov, Deputy General Director of Rostec, was elected as Chairman of the Board of AvtoVAZ whereas Denis Le Vot, Renault Group Senior Vice President, Chairman of Eurasia Region, was elected as vice chairman

The Micra CVT Automatic XL variant which was priced at Rs 6,53,252 will now be available at Rs 5,99,000, a reduction of Rs 54,252. Similarly, the Micra Automatic CVT XV will now cost Rs 6,73,500 as against its earlier price of Rs 7,19,213 lakh, a drop of Rs 45,713 (all prices ex-showroom Delhi).

According to the agreement, all 3,750 employees will get a flat increase of Rs 19,100 per month at the end of the third year. The employees are currently earning an average of Rs 33,000 per month, thus bagging a 57% hike.

Renault and Nissan have a common car plant in Oragadam, near Chennai that manufactures a range of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs). While the plant was inaugurated in March 2010, production is shared by both partners, including exports. At present the factory works in two shifts and rolls out 1,000 cars a day.

The strategy for Nissan this year would to attempt to increase market share from the current rate at 1.5% to 5% in the Indian passenger car segment, which saw the sale of over 26 lakh cars in the fiscal year 14-15, when the segment registered a year-on-year growth of 3.9%.

Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest car maker, will keep its plants shut between December 27 and January 3, while the Renault-Nissan alliance will not operate its factory in Chennai from December 28 to January 3.

When the Daimler-Alliance partnership was launched in April 2010, the scope of the original collaboration was limited to three projects, primarily in Europe. Since then, the combined portfolio shared between the partners has more than quadrupled to 13 projects in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The alliance manufactures a range of passenger cars including the top-selling Renault Duster at the 640-acre factory. It will soon start making the Kwid, a sub-Rs 4 lakh car, at the plant. The company has invested about Rs 4,500 crore over the past seven years.

The airbag plant, which covers an area of 1800 square meters, will assemble driver and passenger airbag modules. The plant will have an installed capacity to produce around 5,00,000 airbags initially with sufficient space to expand as the market grows in the future.

The 50:50 JV will invest a total of US$1 billion in COMPAS which will oversee the construction and operation of a manufacturing plant for the production of next-generation premium compact vehicles for the brands Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti

“Electric vehicle technology is an efficient solution for a practical and affordable mode of transportation. This solution has a positive impact on the climate and air quality in our cities,” said Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance.